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Anthony Chabot Elementary School in Oakland, California, is reportedly hosting a “playdate social” for children from every racial and ethnic background besides white. “If your family identifies as Black, Brown, or API or are [sic] a parent/caregiver of a Black, Brown, or API student. Come hang out while we get a chance to know each other and build our community as we kick off this schoolyear [sic],” reads the invite to the event, hosted by the school’s so-called Equity & Inclusion Committee. “I dunno about others, but I’m genuinely upset about what ultimately boils down to a “No whites allowed”...

Video shows a male student, who reportedly identifies as transgender, brawling with teen girls at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, FOX 11 Los Angeles reported on Thursday. Students and parents told the outlet the transgender student in the video “has a history of erratic and uncomfortable behavior,” according to the report. Students said that while fights are an every-week occurrence at the school, the last two fights involved this same transgender student. “He’s [in the] girls’ locker room, using girls’ restrooms,” MLK student Aiden Vermeir alleged. “He spit on my friends that are girls, females. He shows...

A high school in Vermont banned girls on its volleyball team from their own locker room after they expressed discomfort with changing in front of a male who pretends to be a female.Teen girls on the Randolph Union High School volleyball team said a male student claiming to be transgender reportedly “made an inappropriate comment while members of the volleyball team were getting changed.”When players and their parents raised concerns about teen girls sharing intimate spaces with someone of the opposite sex, the school told them state law allows for students claiming to be transgender to use whichever bathrooms and...

... Laws setting guiderails for classroom instruction on race passed this year in Republican-controlled states have left some teachers worried about how they will be enforced. Particularly in districts with large numbers of people of color, educators say they worry everyday discussions about students’ experiences could land teachers in hot water. In response to a push for culturally responsive teaching that gained steam following last year’s police killing of George Floyd, Republican lawmakers and governors have championed legislation to limit the teaching of material that explores how race and racism influence American politics, culture and law. The measures have become...

New national standards prod schools to return to content-based education.The biggest new thing in American public education these days is a two-volume, 230-page, written-by-committee document called the Common Core State Standards. Forty-five states have pledged to the federal government that they will adopt the standards—which specify the math and English skills that students must attain in each grade from kindergarten to the end of high school—within the next several years. Some of these states genuinely believe that doing so will make more of their students ready for college and careers. Others are on board primarily because the Obama administration has...

KDVR NEWS – A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play. “I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it. “It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says. He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A class reading assignment infuriates the parents of a 14-year-old Valley Traditional High School student. They said their daughter's questions about the book left them speechless. The book is called "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." "She was masturbating and (describing) how to masturbate and how she did it and also giving a boy a (expletive) and going into great detail of how to perform it," said Vincent. Vincent took the book to her daughter's step-father, who became speechless. "Her being the age that she's in right now, you just freeze up. You don't know...

We are doomed. Charles Cook at National Review caught up with one of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and the result is both comic and depressing … or as Cook puts it, “That being that if there is something someone doesn’t like about their life, someone else somewhere should change it. And if they don’t, well then, the American Dream is dead”

The swine flu has been greatly exaggerated May 5, 2009 By Larson Caldwell Hall Monitor, Skyline High School Recently, the halls of Skyline High School have been filled with hand sanitizers, “Stay Healthy” flyers and the fear of the completely overrated disease of the swine flu...

"Reform math", sometimes called "fuzzy math" or "rainforest math",is taught in the vast majority of public schools even though it is a demonstrable failure. While those of us who follow k-12 education can tell you that these curricula cripple children and are a threat to our economy and national security, this brief, lucid video by an appalled mom who also has a local TV job makes the point very effectively by showing a small part of what the problem is. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI By the way, note that McDermott fails to point out that the even the alternative...

Free tuition for vow to stay? Panel's idea: After college, you work in state for 10 years By SCOTT WILLIAMS swilliams@journalsentinel.com Posted: Dec. 10, 2006 Would you agree to live and work in Wisconsin for 10 years after college if the state offered to pay your tuition costs for all four years? That is the question being contemplated by a state commission that was assigned to upgrade Wisconsin's two-year college campuses - but has hatched an idea to overhaul the entire University of Wisconsin System. The commission is considering recommending free tuition for all students who agree to remain in...

McALLEN - School children in Texas who spoke limited English met goals on standardized tests in the 2003-2004 school year. According to a study which the Government Accountability Office released Wednesday, Texas and 16 other states met at least the minimum standard set under the No Child Left Behind Act that President Bush signed in January 2002. The study found limited-English students in 30 other states did not meet adequate yearly progress on tests in the same time period. Three states - Arkansas, Illinois and Michigan - did not send information to the GAO. The study called for the U.S....

Before checking the box to identify her race on her college admissions application, Cecilia Vaughn hesitated for a moment, torn by conflicting emotions. It was an optional but important question that might increase her chances of being admitted if for no other reason than the fact she is black. Yet she believed her application was strong enough to stand on its own. She decided to answer the question. "I'm selling myself, and I want them to know as much about me as possible," said Ms. Vaughn, now a senior at Duquesne University. "I don't want anything to be a surprise."...

Like many evolutionary mistakes, intelligent design may be on the road to extinction, put there Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III. When Jones ruled that the Dover Area School District's intelligent design policy violates the First Amendment and barred the district from mentioning intelligent design in biology classes or "from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution," he wasn't just applying a pinprick to the trial balloon intelligent design supporters had chosen to float in this case. He aimed a cannon at it. And fired. Several times. Odds are, other courts will find...

In the midst of introducing an updated iMac G5, new iPods and major new release of iTunes, Apple also quietly removed its eMac computer from general circulation. Apple has confirmed the eMac is no longer available, at least for consumers. “The eMac is no longer available at the online Apple Store or Apple’s retail stores, but we are continuing to offer the eMac on the online education store for institutional customers,” an Apple spokesperson told MacCentral. The all-in-one eMac incorporates a built-in 17-inch CRT-based display and G4 processor. The system most recently featured a processor clocked at 1.42GHz, and was...

Money and receiving an education are almost synonymous in this day and age. You certainly have to have one to have the other. But I wonder how many people really know how or what their individual tax dollars actually contribute to their own child's education. In the 1999-2000 school year, the breakdown of tax dollars went something like this: Local and intermediate sources made up 43 cents of every dollar in revenue, state revenues comprised 50 cents, and the remaining 7 cents came from federal sources. (U.S. Education Spending: 1999-2000 http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/doe_education_spending.shtml) Here's the catch. Local, state, and federal dollars all...

Arrogant censorship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern David Limbaugh © 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc. An incident at Hudson High School in Massachusetts provides an object lesson in the occasional arrogance of liberal bias. A group of students decided to form a conservative club as "a counterweight" to the majority political viewpoint at the school. Student Chris Bowler put up posters to publicize the club's first meeting in December. Within hours, school administrators reportedly removed the posters because they contained a link to the website of High School Conservative Clubs of America, a national organization for high-school conservative...

It is estimated that in the United States between 4 million and 8 million children are on Ritalin, the drug being used to change the behavior of children afflicted with a disease or condition called attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactive disorder. We already know that the long-term use of Ritalin can be fatal. In March of 2000, a 14-year-old ninth-grader, Matthew Smith, dropped dead of a heart attack while skateboarding. He had been on Ritalin since the first grade. And in 1994, the very popular singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27. He was known...

The lazy days of summer may hurt children who struggle in school the rest of the time.Most Georgia families aren't growing corn in the back yard and don't have an okra crop waiting to be picked. So why are schools still clinging to a calendar designed for farm families who needed their children home during the summer to work in the fields? Today's nine-month school calendar is a remnant of the old agricultural economy. The family farms disappeared, but the agrarian-based calendar lingers, forcing parents to scramble to occupy their kids for 11 weeks of the summer. Under a banner...

Other colleges were able to lure away 78 of Arizona State University's best faculty members last year but, thanks to a $43,550 pay raise, the Sun Devils hung on to their executive vice president and provost. Who until the raise was struggling along on a paltry $206,450 a year. ASU has watched class sizes increase and course offerings decrease, making it tougher for students to earn a degree in four years. But thanks to a $42,300 pay raise, the university kept its executive vice president for administration and finance. Who was scraping by on only $157,700 per annum. Students and...